Articles
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Film preservation and nostalgia
A while ago, I had an interesting conversation on Twitter with film scholar and critic Rowena Santos Aquino. It all started from her pointing out a beautiful article by Grady Hendrix on, among other things, the lack of film preservation efforts in Hong Kong. Some days later, Rowena linked this article to me, in which Paul Fonoroff talks about a newly restored version of Clifton Ko Chi-Sum’s All’s Well, Ends Well.
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Going back to Stanley Kubrick
Lately I’ve found myself deeply immersed in Michel Chion’s work on Stanley Kubrick. I took it as a reason to go back to Kubrick’s oeuvre, connecting the dots and trying to figure out what the great director means today.
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The New Cinephilia
It’s fair to say Girish Shambu’s The New Cinephilia is what pushed me out of my cavern. That and a mail from the author himself telling me “You should do it!”.